Sipa of Veneto, Italy is a provider of Pet Stretch Blow Moulding Machines for the production of Pet bottles and has developed light-weighting technologies for hot fill Pet bottles used in the juice, tea, isotonic and flavoured water markets.

Sipa has been involved in on-going weight reduction development for hot fill Pet beverage containers over the past 8 years for both single stage and two stage technologies.

Depending on the technology chosen in conjunction with the bottlers filling process, bottle weight reductions of up to 30% are being achieved.

Capable of being filled at up to 90°C with modern filling equipment, Sipa can significantly reduce the weight of the traditionally heavy hot fill Pet bottles.

As an example, a Sipa customer in Vietnam is producing a 26gm, 500ml bottles filled at 88°C using a 38mm non-crystalline reinforced lightweight neck finish. Typically the same bottles in the Australian market are in the 32 - 35gm range.

Bottlers can save approximately Euro 130,000 per annum for every gram reduction on a filling line operating at 24,000 bph on a continuous production basis.

Sipa also provide Pet packaging solutions for beer, liquor and other beverage sectors that were traditionally devoted to glass and metal can packaging.

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